9:47 PM,
Jan. 6, 2014

Michael Stickler

Written by

Martha Bellisle
mbellisle@rgj.com

The federal trial for a man who was the subject of a Reno Gazette-Journal investigation into his alleged misuse of faith-based initiative grant funds will not start Tuesday as previously planned. Instead, the trial has been moved to March.

Mike Stickler, former owner of Faith-Based Solutions, was indicted in 2012 for stealing or embezzling $200,000 that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded his company in 2007-08. The indictment followed an RGJ probe into his $1.5 million grant that was supposed to be used to help churches grow and work effectively.